10 Most Insufferable Film Sequels Since 2000
4. Halloween II
Whatever your opinion of Rob Zombie’s Halloween, the first 40 minutes were just that – Halloween filtered through the mind of the man who made House Of 1000 Corpses. What happened next was unthinkable - he made the same movie, only without any thrills or sympathetic characters.
The only expectation for this sequel was that it’d be like the 1981 sequel and take place in a dimly-lit hospital full of idiot victims. For 20 minutes, Zombie goes that route, then he says it was all a dream which frankly is a cheat.
It seems that Michael Myers got up and walked away after being shot point blank in the last movie, and he’s spent 2 years talking to his mother’s ghost in a barn. That’s enough to drive anyone crazy, so when Halloween rolls around he stalks another bunch of stereotypes that have “dead meat” written on their foreheads. Then he kills them. Needless to say, originality is not on the menu here.